NEWS
{mosimage}TORONTO - The Catholic Women鱿鱼视频app League (CWL) of the Toronto archdiocese moved to forward resolutions on speeding and poverty to the provincial level at its annual convention held in Richmond Hill.
Fr. Lynch to lead Priests for Life
By Catholic Register Staff{mosimage}TORONTO - Fr. Thomas Lynch, a well-known pro-life advocate in Canada, has been appointed national director for Priests for Life Canada, the organization announced May 8.
Seven ordained for Toronto archdiocese
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - It鱿鱼视频app not a job, it鱿鱼视频app a mission. The seven Toronto men ordained to the priesthood May 10 were sent out on their respective missions even before Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins laid hands on them to make them eternally priests in service of the sacrament of the church.
Bishop aches for Sudanese homeland
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO-Sudan鱿鱼视频app wounded healer is going home. Rather than trying to arrest him, the government in Khartoum is relying on Bishop Macram Max Gassis to build hospitals and schools, dig wells and inspire his people to look more to the future than to a past filled with mass rape, child soldiers, bombings and ethnic cleansing. 鈥淲e are all traumatized. I am traumatized from the war,鈥 said Gassis.
Chinese Catholics aid quake victims
By Catholic News Service{mosimage}CHENGDU, China - Chinese priests had to work around disrupted telephone systems and damaged roads as they tried to assess the damage from the May 12 earthquake centred under Sichuan province.
Responding to appeals for aid and prayers on Catholic web sites, Catholics across China have begun donating money and clothes to help survivors, the priests told the Asian church news agency UCA News.
Mining company dropped from Jantzi index
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - The complaints of peasants and indigenous people in Central America have reached the Toronto Stock Exchange and pushed off a socially responsible stock index that helps determine at least $33 million in mutual fund investment.
Fr. Bayda to be bishop of Saskatoon Ukrainian Catholics
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic NewsOTTAWA - When Fr. Bryan Bayda got the phone call from the apostolic nuncio (papal ambassador to Canada) telling him that Pope Benedict XVI had appointed him bishop of the , he experienced shock and disbelief.
Catholic TV journalists cover papal visit
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News{mosimage}NEW YORK - Salt+Light TV producer Kris Dmytrenko thought covering the Pope鱿鱼视频app visit to the United States April 15-20 would be like 鈥渂eing a pilgrim with access.鈥
鈥淚t was very different than what I imagined,鈥 Dmytrenko, 28, said. 鈥淚 thought I鈥檇 have free access to roam around, a 鈥榖ackstage pass.鈥 鈥
Toronto deacons celebrate 35 years of service
By Michael Swan, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - After 35 years the men ordained to the permanent diaconate for the archdiocese of Toronto are still discovering new ways to be deacons 鈥 new ways to serve God and the church.
Deacon Rob Kinghorn does it by walking some of the most dangerous streets in Toronto on Thursday nights between 8 p.m. and 1 a.m. and praying with the people he meets 鈥 transvestite prostitutes, crack dealers, the lost and the lonely.
New Catholics welcomed to Toronto archdiocese
By Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register{mosimage}TORONTO - The Catholic Church formed a part of his life for about 30 years, but despite loving his community and parish priest, Elmont Cumberbatch, 68, said it wasn鈥檛 until this past Easter that he really felt at home.
Evangelical Christian agency ordered to abandon behaviour code
By Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News{mosimage}OTTAWA - The has ordered an evangelical Christian charity to rescind its morality code and require employees to undergo anti-discrimination training.